Pink!

[callmemadam]

I love foxgloves and the spotty ones are my favourites. I don't mind where they seed themselves but they're very easy to move to wherever you want them. When they've finished flowering I leave any white or pale coloured ones to seed, in hope of getting some interesting crosses.


These, in a neglected as yet undeveloped spot, are taller than I am.



Some more pink flowers.
Gladiolus byzantinus



Thalictrum



Aquilegia



Pretty bed, poor photo.

Comments

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

Wonderful foxgloves! I love them as well. You have such a pretty garden :) Is that clematis montana around your windows? It's lovely.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Im not sure about the clematis. It's one of those that seeds itself and I've found it popping up in the greenhouse. The whole gable end of the cottage and part of the next wall are smothered in clematis, honeysuckle and a climbing rose. Smells wonderful in the bedroom but sadly for me, my neighbours get the best view of it :-)

[ramblingfancy.livejournal.com]

Beautiful Barbara! I hope I can get there to see in it person before too long! Illryian Spring arrived today as new ppbk - thought of you getting me into the Ann Bridges!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you and I'm really looking forward to seeing you.

I've also just received Illyrian Spring and I'm saving it for the weekend. It's odd that I have some of Ann Bridge's book which are quite scarce, yet have never found a copy of that one.

[cornflowerbooks.livejournal.com]

Who needs Arne Maynard? Lovely!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, thank you! I'd love a free makeover; Arne Maynard's own garden looks wonderful.

[gghost.livejournal.com]

How lovely, Barbara!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Your roses aren't too shabby :-)

Off to do some watering.

[lethe1]

Lovely foxgloves!

Am very jealous of your Aquilegia. I was given some seeds long ago, but the day after I planted them others did some grubbing(?) and the Aquilegia was lost forever. (I have to share the little garden with my two neighbours.)

But I'm inordinately pleased that my dagkoekoeksbloem ("day cuckoo flower"), which I learned only today is called Red Campion in English, is flowering abundantly, several years after I sowed it. The first time it came up it was cruelly removed by my then downstairs neighbour's help, because it was growing on the garden path. This time it chose a spot right in the middle of the lavender bush, oh well. At least nobody touches it now. :-)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

What a shame about your aquilegias (or Columbines, as we used to call them). I have to weed them up to stop them taking over the garden, they're such keen self-seeders.

Red Campion is usually regarded as a weed here but it's so pretty. I love the white one.

[trixiebacon.livejournal.com]

Lovely foxgloves. They were out on the roadsides in Cornwall last week. You could sell jigsaws made from your last picture!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Lucky you, I love to see them in the wild. Round here, every road is lined with cow parsley at the moment: beautiful.

Cunning plan but think how hard all that honeysuckle would be to do :-)

[trixiebacon.livejournal.com]

The cow parsley's wonderful round here at the moment.

Anne Bridge novels

[(Anonymous)]

I have just received the latest catalogue from Capuchin Classics and for those who like the novels of Ann Bridge, Capuchin have published Peking Picnic for those who have been unable to find an original copy.
Margaret P

[geraniumcat.livejournal.com]

I don't know which of your pink flowers I like best - I do love meadow rue but it really doesn't cope with the conditions here, and my clematis is a drizzle compared to your lovely waterfall.
Do hope you enjoy Illyrian Spring, may favourite Ann Bridge.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I now have bright pink cosmos as well, very cheerful on a dull day. The foxgloves are the garden stars for me.

Looking forward to Illyrian Spring, though I'll probably find I read it years ago.